Fault Traces investigates India’s alleged marketing campaign to assassinate critics in the US and Canada.
Final June, a Vancouver-area plumber named Hardeep Singh Nijjar stood earlier than his congregation of Sikhs to ship a darkish prediction: brokers of the Indian authorities had been plotting to kill him. He requested his followers to proceed to pursue his life’s work – an unbiased state for Sikhs in India – after he was gone.
When Hardeep left the temple that night, a white sedan hemmed him in, two armed males jumped out of the automotive, and shot him dozens of occasions. It was clearly a deliberate hit – witnesses noticed the gunmen soar right into a separate getaway automotive – however there was no concrete proof that India was behind the killing.
Certainly, it was virtually unthinkable to exterior observers that India would danger its diplomatic and financial relationships with the US and Canada to silence a marginal activist like Hardeep.
However two months later, the US Justice Division unsealed an indictment in New York that appeared to verify his darkest predictions. Prosecutors allege that Hardeep’s killing was one in all many such assassinations that Indian spies had been planning throughout the US and Canada.
On this episode of Fault Traces, we examine the Hindu-supremacist political ideology motivating India’s North American assassination plots and the worldwide rise in transnational repression.
